If the house rules bug you move out, court advises...

If the house rules bug you move out, court advises tenant

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Michael Mashiri

The court has told a tenant who objects to her landlady’s rules has been advised to move out after the court granted a peace order barring her from stripping in public and calling her landlady a loose female.

Junior Chikuni and tenant Alice Matara faced off at the Harare Civil Court with the homeowner accusing Matara of stripping off her clothes in public while Matara said Chikuni’s house rules were too strict.

"She is a stripper. Whenever l tell her that what she is doing is wrong, she will say l have sexual frustrations and l am jealousy of her," said Chikuni who is a single mother. She said Matara calls her a woman of loose morals.

Chikuni said she locks her gate at 8PM and Matara takes her keys without permission and causes a commotion when she comes in late.

Matara refuted the allegations saying she sometimes comes home late because she uses public transport.

"She is lying Your Honor. l am a mortician student.

"Whenever l come home late it's because l would have failed to find transport on time," she said.

Matara said Chikuni’s rules were too restrictive including barring all visitors.

"I asked her to give me keys for the gate, she refused," she said.

Matara said they are both single and in first days they got on well.

Matara alleged that Chikuni gossiped about her with the mother of a man who had shown interest in Matara.

"I told her of a guy, a neighbor who was asking me out and she asked to see his picture. Later on the guy's mother came and banged my door open and started insulting, saying all sorts of things while l was naked with my boyfriend from Karoi.

"Chikuni had told the guy's mother that he was asking me out," she said.

Application was granted in favor of Chikuni.

The court advised Matara to move out if she was always at loggerheads with her landlord.